humble-book-downloader

A set of scripts for automating download and retrieval of humble book bundles

Set up

• Modify .destination to specify a destination folder (defaults to .)

Usage

• Log into the Humble Bundle site, and browse to your purchases.
• Open an eBook bundle you wish to download
• Using the Developer tools (or other means), capture the response from the call to https://www.humblebundle.com/api/v1/order and save in .json (where is some unique name)
• Run ./download.sh <name.json to download that bundle, or capture multiple bundles (in separate json files) and run ./download_all.sh
• Enjoy all your local content!

Why?

I buy more than a few Humble eBook bundles, and the Humble Bundle isn't the fastest or most mobile friendly. I usually try and archive all of my eBooks on Dropbox, but and downloading/archiving all of the content in a bundle is a pain in the ass. This makes it less painful.

Contribute

If you can improve upon this, please do and send me a pull request. I eventually want to roll this into a browser add-in that will detect/capture the API call on the page and automate the download directly from within the browser, but I'm happy to consider any/all contributions.